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CachyOS Now Lets Users Choose Their Shell
CachyOS is a bit niche and not nearly as well known as the likes of Ubuntu or Fedora, but sometimes those niche distributions do things that might inspire the others to follow suit.
In an announcement for the July 2025 CachyOS release, the developers announced that the user's shell can be chosen during installation. Before you get too excited, the choices are limited to fish, Zsh, and Bash. During installation, if you don't choose between fish or Zsh, Bash will be chosen for you (even though the default configuration will remain fish).
There are other changes coming to the next iteration of CachyOS, such as KDE Plasma installations defaulting to Wayland. At the same time, the NVIDIA legacy drivers and plasma-x11-session will also be installed to avoid problems.
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